New Testament Social Ethics for Today

This is a print on demand book and is therefore non- returnable. To answer the question of what role the New Testament should play in the formation and expression of Christian social morality today Richard Longenecker here proposes a developmental hermeneutic which distinguishes between declared principles and described practices in the New Testament writings. With this distinction in mind he focuses on the three couplets of Galatians 3:28 — neither Jew nor Greek slave nor free male nor female — showing how these matters were treated in early Christian thought and explaining their meaning for us today. In so doing Longenecker lays a hermeneutical foundation for the much larger discussion of Christian social ethics.